Bruichladdich 1991 Cadenhead Wine Cask

Can’t find the picture I took or a picture of the bottle online, so here’s a picture from my visit to the distillery.

This is another offering from Cadenhead’s wood range, this one having been aged in a Bourbon hogshead and then a Burgundy wine cask. I really like the wood range offerings from Cadenhead and have had some really interesting ones, but to be honest I got this as a sample which didn’t state the cask type and I really didn’t feel it.

A few notes popped up here and there but I felt the bourbon cask influence a lot more. Interestingly this whisky is also from distillate made before Bruichladdich was mothballed in 1993 (to be re-opened, refurbished and rebranded in 2001) when things were done a little differently there.

Aged 25 years. 48.2% ABV. Matured in a bourbon hogshead and a burgundy wine cask. No colourant added, non-chill filtered and bottled at cask strength from a single cask.

I found this one oddly weak. The nose was pleasant, albeit without too prominent a wine character, but the palate kind of let me down, felt quite watery and finish was a little short for a cask strength bottling. There was also a flair of ethanol which was unbalanced. A bit of a disappointment considering the caliber of other whiskies I’ve tried from this range.